George Wald (2)
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
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Henry A. Wallace (3)
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
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Alfred Russel Wallace (3)
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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Hugh Walpole (2)
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
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An Wang (3)
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
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Mary Augusta Ward (3)
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
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William Arthur Ward (14)
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
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Andy Warhol (18)
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
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Charles Dudley Warner (5)
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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Earl Warren (6)
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
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George Washington (30)
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Martha Washington (2)
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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Booker T. Washington (10)
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Ethel Waters (4)
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
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Thomas J. Watson (6)
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
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Isaac Watts (3)
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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Alan Watts (16)
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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Evelyn Waugh (3)
Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.
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John Wayne (4)
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
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John Webster (3)
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
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Simone Weil (25)
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
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Adam Weishaupt (2)
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Lawrence Welk (9)
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
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Orson Welles (15)
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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Rebecca West (11)
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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Edith Wharton (6)
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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Richard Whately (5)
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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Benjamin Whichcote (2)
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
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Ellen G. White (3)
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
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William Allen White (3)
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
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Theodore White (5)
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
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E. B. White (19)
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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George Whitefield (5)
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
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Alfred North Whitehead (19)
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Walt Whitman (30)
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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John Greenleaf Whittier (7)
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (6)
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
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Oscar Wilde (100)
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder (2)
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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Thornton Wilder (12)
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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Tennessee Williams (17)
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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William John Wills (2)
We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.
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Edmund Wilson (2)
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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Tom Wilson (5)
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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Flip Wilson (7)
I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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Harold Wilson (3)
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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Samuel Wilson (3)
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
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Woodrow Wilson (19)
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Walter Winchell (3)
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (9)
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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P. G. Wodehouse (3)
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
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Mary Wollstonecraft (6)
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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Natalie Wood (4)
I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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George Edward Woodberry (2)
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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Victoria Woodhull (3)
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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Carter G. Woodson (6)
The mere imparting of information is not education.
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Virginia Woolf (30)
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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William Wordsworth (21)
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (26)
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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Wilbur Wright (2)
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
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Frances Wright (5)
Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Orville Wright (2)
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
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William Wycherley (3)
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
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Elinor Wylie (2)
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
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Tammy Wynette (2)
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
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